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I think they're advantage is density. Most 1U servers with this kind of capacity are full-depth (with connections in back and drives in front). Not only are all the connectors in the front, but you can put 2 ber U of rackspace (one front and one back) with a chimney in the middle to deal with...

No. I do it all the time. Just be sure that no logs/mailstores/web folders are on the system partition.

I sold my GTI for a 2003 VW Golf: better milage and I needed to be ticket-free for a while to get my licence back. I've done over 78,000 miles in the last 2 years, and I don't see gas prices coming down any time soon, and I have my licence back so I can afford some more performance...so I think...

Let's see if we can make those of you with lesser video cards have your system...well, you know... :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl...

My thoughts exactly. An -ex loved vegamite, I tolerated it for over a year, then called off the engagement.

Only 34 minutes late? Wow, they are getting good at that... Congratulations Will, a beautiful baby. (PS: I was 13 hours of labor late, and been a PITA ever since)

LOL! My thoughts exactly!

A basic Wacom tablet would certainly fit the bill and then some, but it is certianly not cheap as far as mice go.

7:30am huh? Did you get that in writing? ;) Congratulations.

I think that can be blamed on the slightly concave shape of the heatspreader. Add some thermal compound and a mess of pressure, and make sure that the user can't slight the heatsink off the side, and it makes for a hell of a vacum.

I really don't think so. I tried really hard with no joy.

I'm really excited about the P-180. I can't buy one at the moment (I've already REALLY overspent on computer gear this month), but it is a no-brainer for my workstation.

Newegg is certainly spotty. I contacted them 2 days ago about a typo in the shipping address of an order and was handled within 10 minutes. I just tried calling today (I'm at a desk with a speakerphone handy) and got through in 45 minutes. Crazy.

I'd argue that firewire and digital audio are becoming less and less niche apps. (The eSATA certainly is). I have a pretty hard time finding workstation printers that even support parallel, and an even harder time finding one that doesn't support USB. Ditto mice and keyboards - they almost all...

The Ninja with a Nexus and a Zalman Fanmate is the most expensive cooler you can get short of water cooling, but it is absolutely silent inside a case. Hell, mine is OUTSIDE a case, inches from my ear, and completely inaudible. Keep in mind there's no point in going this nuts unless you put...

So you and the rep from your credit card company are both on hold for over 90 minutes? Ouch. Newegg is definatly the Fry's of the internet. Good selection, good prices, no service. Best of luck finding a company that offers all three for an extended period of time.

The fact that they are 4 different plugs, each with limited use and more complex that they need to be. That and they consume about 30% of the space on the backplane that could go to more usefull plugs such as Firewire, USB, Ethernet, Audio (1/8", SPDIF, TOSLink), external SATA, DVI, and maybe...

If this will do what I want it to, I can say goodbye to acronis trueimage.

I'm quite stoked about this, as it shows that we (mainstream early adopters) will have motherboard without PCI sooner rather than later. I'd imagine gimick-based manufacturers will be the first over, with creative and linksys offering their products in PCIe, before every else does. Then we can...

Quite so. I haven't been to that apartment in quite some time. Hings have been really busy for me for the last few weeks. Theoretically the card is waiting for me there on the counter, but there still hasn't been time to plug it in. Don't worry, I'll be sure to let you know when I do.

My favorite disk-based offsite storage I had installed last year. 2 miles of 0.5mm fiber running between 2 offices at gigabit speeds. Each office has a TB server (about $2500 at the time) that backs up the other one. Really awesome.

Coug, how did you end up with this cursed piece of equipment? Not just a P4, but a crummily socketed P4?

Considering the newer flash storage devices are able to distribute writes evenly accross the media, lifetimes are being lengthened substantially. On a storage device this large I can only imagine that distributing the writes would make it a non-issue for the average user.

earth.google.com is amazing. It's incredible not just from the information it provides, but in the tools it offers and how efficiently it presents it's data. The day it came out I spent hours just surfing around the earth checking things out. Apparently they also have the moon in there as well.

Those specs open up all kinds of applications. I wonder how that compares to the specs of the drives in IPods...

I'm certainly interested in what they have to offer. I've been doing disk-based backups for years at most of my companies (reinforced by DVD media taken off-site). I'm currently using MS Backup (nothing wrong with it) but am interested to see what they can do.

You wouldn't catch me deat in the local computer place, every time I go in there they insist that I do work; as if I owned the place or something! I always have my laptop to fall back on; an Averatec XP-M 1600+ with 1GB and a 12" LCD. I really like it, and since it was $500, I hardly worry...

I ended up getting a program called magicISO for $30 that has a great command-line interface for creating and modifying ISO files very quickly. I then use the dvdburn.exe tool from the rescource kit (thanks Merc) to burn said ISO to DVD. Though not free, it works for me. Thanks guys (or...

Now I remember. The rescource kit includes a tool that will burn ISOs from the command line, but I need a way to create ISOs from a directory structure automatically. Help?

YES! Server 2003 it is! I'll begin searching for info immediatly. Thanks Merc.

I could have sworn I'd asked this question before, but I can't find the thread, and I can't remember an answer. I need to burn a directory to DVD using the task scheduler. No compression or other options required. TIA David

Very funny indeed.

Used for fileserving? How many harddrives? APC has a pretty cool power consumption calculator on their website.

More upgrades since my last post. It's getting really absurd since I'm spending more time upgrading the systems than working on them. Workstation: A64 3700+ San Diego Core (2.75Ghz - 250x11 @1.5V) Scythe Ninja Gigabyte nForce4 SLI 1GB Corsair XMS DDR550 Gigabyte Fanless x800 PCIe 40GB Samsung...

To quote Mercutio from another thread:

I just got back from a wedding in LA over the weekend. With the temp over a hundred and the humidity over 80%, I could feel the pollution sticking to my body. The one advantage of wearing the full tux with vest and tie was that it took nearly 5 minutes for the heat to penetrate fully and cause...

My complaints about the slot architecture are focused on the physical design rather than the cores they supported. Most notably the tendancy for the socket itself to pull clear of the motherboard. Though it would be interesting to see what heatpipe-based coolers could be devised around the slot...

Slot-1/A - Now there is an architecture worth replacing!

The problem with standards is that they have to be standard. That means being able to accomodate at least 90% of the boards out there. There's just too many "special needs" now that so many things are integrated onto the motherboard. Many of the funkier things are now using PCI slots and...

The new boards I buy are Gigabyte nForce4 boards that have 6 audio plugs, 2 ethernet connectors, and 2 SPDIF connections. How are you going to fit that in a standard? I'm still hoping that someday soon the average board will ditch parallel, serial, and PS/2 connections. That would require...

I have had good experiences with Get Data Back, but it does take FOREVER to do anything. Thanks for the update, and glad to hear you didn't lose anything.

Hoping you hadn't deleted the original of the data yet?

I'm quite interested in your results as well. I don't have much experience with dynamic disks, but have always wondered how hard it would be to move them around and do maintenece/recovery stuff on them.

THis is indeed a great idea. I use the 3M hooks along the top of the case to guide these cables into the topmost 5.25" bay.

Not going to argue, just going to make sure that this is it. "BlueGears/HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail"

The circuit city where the impulse buy happened did not have anything but this card and a SB Live!. There's no way I would have ordered a sound card, I simply didn't think it would make that much difference with my current speakers (Klipsch 2.1) and my source (192kbps ABR MP3). It was on the...

I've been running onboard audio for about as long as the AC97 standard has been shipping on mainstream boards. I just did a major impulse buy and went for a Audigy 2 ZS. Now I really understand what my 850 codec was missing! This is really good sound by comparison. I know Creative sucks, but I'm...

I recently recieved a 2.5" Samsung SATA drive from newegg as part of a larger order. The drive was in a sealed anti-static bag in a small box along with some OEM CPUs, RAM and peanuts; then put into a larger box with other components and more peanuts. Considering the beating laptop drives are...

Ugh, that kind of stuff is typically reserved for wacko websites. Normally I'm just marginally glad that I don't watch TV, but every once in a while I'm REALLY glad.

Have you considered switching to png image files? I noticed a 30% drop in the size of the images without noticeable image degredation.